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Chicken, butterbean and leek pie

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Sounds nice, not keen on butterbeans myself but have several cans of other beans I need to use up, so might look to see if I can do a swap - as long as it isn't carb high of course. 🙂
 
57.5g of carbs per serving, so fine for those on insulin, but probably too high in carbs for many t2s. Don't assume that all the recipes on the main site will be fine for all, look at the carbs listed, and if you try it, test to see if you can handle it.
 
Just looked at the recipe and it is way too high in carbs, nearly half my daily allowance in one meal! That's the potato and butterbeans causing that - would be better off using cauliflower mash and no butterbeans. Please be careful with the recipes on here, you need to remember to go very easy or avoid potatoes, bread, beans, products that use flour, veggies grown under the ground, fruit except berries, rice, pasta, etc et - it all depends on how your blood sugar reacts to each carb - test before eating then 2 hours after the first bite, you don't want a BG reading of higher than 2 - 3 mmol over the before one. Lower carbs = lower glucose - and can help you lose weight too if you need to. Best keep your carb intake under 130g per day to keep your BG in check - an online food diary helps with keeping count of your carbs, lots of free ones online.
 
Mica P said:
Just made this for our tea. It's a recipe from Diabetes uk

Really nice and so easy to make
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Yes I have just eyeballed at some of those recipes and although there are quite a few that would be suitable for somebody as a Type 2 following a low carb dietary regime there are many that would be far too many carbs. If you consider that low carb will be less than 130g per day so perhaps no more than 35g carb per meal than you will see that at 50g carbs plus for many of the recipes you would have to exercise some portion control to make sure you would not be eating more than you can tolerate by having half a portion and bulking out will salad or green leafy veg.
So the message is do not assume that because they are on the site they will be suitable for Type 2 who are dietary managed maybe with oral meds as well but if people are on insulin they will be able to adjust their dose for those carbs in the recipe.
 
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